Glass-holder.



No. 829,950. PATENTED SEPT. 4, 1906. J. F. OONLIN. 4

GLASS HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 19, 1906.

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UNITED STAT S PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN F. CONLIN, OF CHELSEA, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO AMERICAN SODAFOUNTAIN COMPANY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPO- RATION OF NEWJERSEY.

GLASS-HOLDER.

Patented Sept. 4, 1906.

Application filed January 19 1906. Serial No. 296.886.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OHN F. CoNLrN, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Chelsea, in the county of Suffolk and State ofMassachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements inGlass-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to holders for drinking-glasses and the like; andit consists in a new article of manufacture which is light, strong,graceful, easyto attach and detach from a drinking-glass, easilycleaned, and which in use holds a drinking-glass of the proper size andshape firmly and securely.

In the drawing hereto annexed there is shown in perspective a view ofthe complete glass-holder which embodies my invention and improvements.

I form a base G preferably of spun metal and slightly flaring for thesake of stability and provided, moreover, with an aperture 9 in the topthereof, said aperture facilitating the cleaning of the base part. Uponthis base G, I form and secure the combined handle and glass-holdingclip of a single piece of resilient wire as follows: At the mid-part ofthe length of this wire 'I form the loop or base-embracing bent R, whichis secured to the base G, as by soldering around the upper circumferencethereof. The loop R does not pass entirely around this circumference,but is bent upward to form the standard portions or braces A, which asthey extend upward converge slightly to the points a, where the wire isagain bent at about right angles outwardly and then forwardly andupwardly, then backwardly and inwardly to form the arms B, whichconstitute the glass-holding clip. At the points marked b the wire isthen bent at about a right angle upwardly to form the flaring'branches Cof the handle, the upper curves or bends D and the descending curvedportions E forming the en tire handle. The two ends of the wire aresecured, as by soldering, at F to the upper rim of the base G, midwaybetween the struts A. If desired, the bridge cl may be secured betweenthe parts C of the handle for greater stiffness. The clip portion,consisting'of the arms B, is so proportioned that a glass such as shownin dotted lines at H may readily be slipped between the arms B andcaught thereby and may be as readily disengaged when it is desired toremove the glass for any purpose.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a glass-holder, a base; a handle, clip, and standard composed ofresilient wire joined to the base at the lower end of the handleportion, thence extending upward, inward and downward to form saidhandle portion, thence outward, downward and inward in oppositedirections from the handle portion to form two branches of alaterallyopening lass-holding clip, thence downward from sai clipportion to the base, to form a standard, the said wire secured to thebase at the lower ends of said standard portion.

2. In a glass-holder, a base, a one-piece resilient wire, having its twoends oined to the base, and bent upward and over to form a handle, thenoutward on either side symmetrically to form a clip, then inward, anddownward to form a standard, and from the base of the standard curvedaround and secured to the base.

Signed by me at Boston, Massachusetts, this 8th day of November, 1905.

JOHN F. OONLIN.

Witnesses:

JOHN J. CURRAN, Jr. THOMAS J. MORTON, Jr.

